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It is clear over the past few years that wearable devices have moved forward and are continuing to do so. From their early role as novelty gadgets and sports accessories to become more powerful and generally more useful, who knows what is next.
Guest blog by Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics.

Today’s industrial manufacturing cell can include several robot arms, some cameras, position sensors, and some controllers connected together in a network. The cameras and sensors send data to the controllers. The controllers send commands to the robot arms. What happens when a command from the controller arrives at the robot arm a tenth of a second late?
Guest blog by Ka Kay Achacoso.

Virtualisation can bring a wide variety of benefits to industrial control applications without compromising on the level of security delivered by traditional physical infrastructure, as long as you have selected the right software platform.
Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

Most people have read the news this week about Intel’s announcement of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, the highest-performance, most versatile data centre platform ever. The new platform brings massive advantages to customers such as cloud and communications service providers, enterprises, high-performance computing providers and artificial intelligence companies.
Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

Before the end of the decade, the number of connected things is projected to grow exorbitantly. Looking at different sources, projections for the number of connected objects by 2020 could be as low as 26 billion or as high as 50 billion. But even the low end of that range is quite large, so it is reasonable to expect connectedness to be commonplace and expected within the next few years.

The Future of Humanity Institute recently published the results of its survey of over 350 industry and academic Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts from around the globe in an effort to answer this question. They also tackled a more vexing one: When will machines exceed human performance for all tasks? According to those experts we have decades. Guest blogger Mychal McCabe explains.

Engineers and sales can get along better, and customers get safer automobiles by using the ISO 26262 as agreed‑upon set of rules. “Shoot the engineer and ship the product,” is a fun maxim that has stood the test of time. Engineers and developers like to get it right, step back, and take pride in the beauty of their work. CEOs, marketing, and sales want to get it shipped, on time and below budget.

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